Top 5 Dan Baum Quotes

#1. New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don't keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future doesn't exist.

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#2. An armed man is a little republic unto himself

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#3. In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.

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#4. The first time I saw Marcey Parker she was happily firing a submachine gun through a window.

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#5. How many bodies were floating around, and how many more would die? Not the uptown swells with cars, second homes, and wallets full of credit cards, but those who had no car, no friend with a car, those who'd never left New Orleans and weren't about to flee just because the mayor said to go.

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